Lord Hill: Financial services must change its image

April 17 - The European Commissioner for Financial Stability tells Reuters it’s time to reintegrate financial services into polite society, and explain how it translates into jobs and growth.

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How urgent is really not true. Guessing a single market for capital into form that people could understand. The benefits to them as individuals and in the communities. I think it's. Always a good idea to talk in terms of the benefits of what you're trying to do rather than peaches open. But I think there is a general point for the whole financial services industry. In London UK and across Europe about trying to explain. To people. The linkage. Between the sometimes very technical stuff. Fit you guys didn't. And how it helps oil. The economy and translate. In two engraved on jobs and businesses across the EU across the UK I think we've been very back it's it. I think that there is. A big challenge. For the financial services sector generate some parts in particular. To be if I can put it like this. Reintegrated into polite society. I want that to happen I think it is very unhealthy. That financial services. Are seen as being separate from the mainstream economy and separate from the mainstream society. That is not a healthy state of offense I want to be able in my A time. To be someone who can champion the road. That European financial services. Businesses make. To jobs and growth in Europe.